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For Eagles of Death Metal, a Defiant Return to Paris

Rock band plays show three months after last one was cut short by hail of bullets

Eagles of Death Metal performed in Paris on Tuesday night, their first gig in the French city since the terror attack at their Bataclan concert hall performance in November. Mark Kelly reports. Image: AFP/Getty

PARIS—Rock band Eagles of Death Metal returned to the French capital Tuesday to play an emotional concert, three months after their last show in the city was cut short by a hail of bullets that left 90 people dead.

Survivors of the terror attack on the Bataclan music hall were given free tickets to see the band, which performed to a sold-out crowd at the Olympia concert hall in central Paris. A handful of soldiers and police stood...